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Occupational Therapy Subject Guide

A guide to library and information resources for Occcupational Therapy students

Managing your notes

 

 

 

Take notes, create to-do lists, and save things you find online into Onenote or Evernote, and access all in one place.

Managing your documents

Students can download free copies of Microsoft Office apps on up to 5 devices. Includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint and can be backed up on OneDrive.

See our instructions on how to download (university login required).

Referencing

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The Library has developed a Referencing Unit on Canvas, which will teach you the principles of referencing. It will show you how to avoid plagiarism by creating accurate in-text citations and reference lists for your assignments, and also includes a video tutorial on how to use CiteThemRight to format your references to the SGUL Harvard standard. 

Once you've located the information you need, you'll want to store it effectively so it can be retrieved when required; especially when citing and referencing the sources you have used in your academic work.

The Library has a number of resources to support you with referencing and reference management, which you can find detailed below.

 

Referencing tools

Reference Information

You are expected to include citations and references in your academic work. St George's institutional referencing style is Harvard, based on the guidance in the book Cite Them Right (12th edition) by Pears & Shields (2022).

There are plenty of copies available in the Library or use you can use the online version below (see the virtual tutorial below).

Login with your university login at Cite Them Right online to guide you through the referencing process. Our Harvard Referencing Guide also offers some quick reference guidance for commonly used sources.

Remember: there are many different versions of Harvard, so to ensure you are referencing your work correctly you should only follow the guidance in Cite Them Right or resources produced by the Library.

Virtual Tour of Cite Them Right Online

We have created this virtual tour which shows you how to navigate the Cite Them Right website.

When you see this iconA green plus sign. click for a brief explanation.

Use  A downwards pointing white arrow in a red circle. to move to the bottom of the same page and use An upwards pointing white arrow in a red circle. to move back up to the top of the same page.

Click on A upwards-right pointing white arrow in an orange circle. to go to another page and click on A left-pointing white arrow in an orange circle. to go back to the previous page.

 

Have a look and get in touch by emailing liaison@sgul.ac.uk with any questions or feedback you have. 

 

Reference Management

Reference Management

When you find lots of information for your assignments and topics it can be difficult to keep track of all your sources. Using reference management software such as RefWorks, available to all university students, can help you to:

  • collect references - no need to type details in manually
  • store references in a web account or on your desktop
  • organise references
  • add notes to your references
  • link to full text, web pages and documents
  • cite your references and create bibliographies in different styles

To learn how to use RefWorks, please see our Refworks Learning Unit on Canvas.